Conscience Money and the Hidden Fund in the Treasury
A Washington letter explains the U S Treasury conscience fund. Beginning with 380 in 1827 the fund has grown to nearly a quarter of a million dollars from diverse remittances. Contributors include priests and ministers, a Canadian priest, and others confessing past thefts or wrongdoing. Various stories accompany the receipts, some with moral explanations, others cryptic or anecdotal. In one tale a dying man’s confession yields 21 dollars from a post office theft, and a New York envelope holds 2000 in canceled bills from a single donor. A New Orleans anecdote tells of a fisherman’s final bequest of 990 found behind a wall. Credits include counterfeit money and various notes of remorse.
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Washington
United States Treasury
Treasury
Sandwich Islands
Mare Island Navy Yard
Canada
Quebec
United States
Kansas City
Missouri
New York State
New York
New Orleans
Shud
Calcasieu Pass
Misippi
Smith
Calcasieu Bar
United States Navy
Novel colt-raising stunt shocks readers
The Captain ordered a dramatic retrieval as the colt plunged from a surface. Hands worked quickly and the animal was brought up wrapped in blankets and unharmed. The episode is described as a new and novel method to raise colts.
Stock Gambling A Passion As Strong As Card Playing
A bright New Yorker worked in a bank as a messenger boy for sixteen years and rose to a hefty income while chasing fortune in the stock market. He buys a stock on impulse, with little patience, and rides waves until a sudden wipeout, repeating the cycle as long as risk remains. Stock gambling mirrors card gambling with a few coolheaded winners and many failures.
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N. Y
Stock Exchange
Wall Street
Oil Exchange
Western Union
Abr
Gould
Exra
Vorbis
Electric Bitters and Dr King's New Discovery Ad
An advertisement touts Electric Bitters as the purest medicine for kidney and liver complaints and blood purification. It cites Mr T W At King of Girard Kansas and Dr Kings New Discovery for Consumption with a walking skeleton testimonial and free trial note from A W Merck's drug store.
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Thuousan
T. W. Atking
Girard
Kan
Tate
Ar. J. Springer
Mechanicsburg
Dr. King
A. W. Merck
Simmons Liver Regulator Advised for Livestock Health
E T Taylor, agent for Grangers in Georgia, touts Simmons Liver Regulator for horses cattle and chickens. Claims in ounce doses for colic liver and lung ailments with daily feedings curing cholera and gapes in poultry and asserts no losses where used promptly and regularly.
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Simmons
E.T. Taylor
Grangers
Georgia
The Life Lesson and Efficacy of Remedies
An advertisement extols Acker's English Remedy as the best treatment for asthma croup coughs and long troubles with a guaranty. It mentions figures from Elizabet h and touts Ely's Cream Balm and Grapeline by L G Noyes. Also notes indigestion headaches and various stomach ailments improved by Grappling and promised appetite increase.
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L.d. Noyes
Acker
AYER SARSAPARILLA Endorsed by Medical Profession
Surface indications powerful enough to expel hereditary scrofula are claimed. AYER SARSAPARILLA is endorsed by the medical profession and widely cited as giving real lasting benefits, with supporting attestations from many parts of the world.
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Ayer
Burdock Blood Bitters Promises Constipation Relief
An advertisement extols Burdock Blood Bitters as a cure or relief for constipation and related ailments caused by toxified matter in the body. It cites a testimonial from J. B. Williamson of Rochester and describes prior torpid liver and indigestion cured after using the product.
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Williamson
Rochester
N. Y
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Conscience Money
Iridle
Tresury
Yankees
Ann Gray Hees
Barnesvilles
Captain Powell
Daisy
Bavy
Castona
Castoria
Miss
N Simmons
Regulator
Rte
Hudson
Bris the Huson
N.Y
John Elling
Lindenwald
The
Baptist Church
David Kennedy
F. Hermans
Ghent
Harvey Thomas
Warren Street
Worth House
J.h.zeilin & CO
Philadelphia, PA
Warren County Directory
D. D
F. E. Reed
Pierce
It. W. Townley
J. F. Mea Lorin
Sherwood
Bunker
J. Masukrey
Davinkers
J. Tichenor
Elzabeth
J. En
Ely
L.G. Noyes
Warren, Pa
flErep Bros
Hood
Hood & Apothecaries
Lowell
Mass
J.B. Hobensack
Second Street
Race
Philadelphia
KL. G. Neves
London
Brown
Lb. J. Strange
Stark Lai
Florida
Dr. J.C. Ayer & Co
Lowell, Mass
Nelson Greenland
Exchange Hotel
Warren County
Noyes
Savings Bank
BOYD
Springfield Manufacturing CO
Springfield
Ohio
Micwory Street
T. W. McNett, Alext
GEO. P.orr & CO
GEO. P. Orr&,co
H. A. Jamieson & CO
Lake Shore Tube Works
National
Syracuse
Disston’s Siniond
DU Pont
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